And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Study Helps
Interpretation
Jesus began to preach in Galilee, after that John was put in prison. If some be laid aside, others shall be raised up, to carry on the same work.
Glossary
- Zebedee Person
- A Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q. v. ), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord’s disciples ( Matt. 4:21 ; 27:56 ; Mark 15:40 ).